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The last day, June 9, the prestigious restaurateur André Extermann Swiss came to Alhama de Murcia to specify and verify the reports and studies by the musicologist Victor Alejandro Masso and Javier Martinez, of all reported at a press conference the councilman of Culture and Heritage, Jesus Basauri, adding that on Monday, the restorer, had been working on the other Tornel Tadeo instrument exists in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia and Tuesday was devoted to the instrument of the town.
The expert claimed that the restoration process could last about a year and that soon would make the proposal to the Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Region of Murcia on the restoration project of both pianofortes.
On the pianoforte of Alhama of 1784, the first to be built in Spain, claimed that after its restoration back to sound and that it was a tool of special interest and a certain nobility in construction materials such as walnut, rosewood and ivory.
The mayor also stressed that it has received an email inquiring about the instrument from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, through its director Eleonora Luciano interested in the Pianoforte de Alhama and its membership of the Marquesa de Pontejos, sister of Count Floridablanca, since in that museum is the famous painting by Goya of the Marquesa.
Possibly, in late June to finalize Extermann André again the restoration project with the Region of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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